End-gate for wagons.



No. 659,575. .Patanted Oct. 9, I900. 4

W CARPENTER END GATE FDR WAGONS.

(Application filed Aug. 2, 1900.)

(No-Model.)

UNlTED "STATES PATENT FFICE.

XVESLEY CARPENTER, OF ENTERPRISE, OHIO.

EN D-GATE FOR WAGONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 659,575, dated October 9, 1900.

Application filed August 2, 1900.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WEsLEY CARPENTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Enterprise, in the county of Hocking and State. of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in End-Gates for Wagons; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to end -gates for wagons.

The object of the invention is to provide an end-gate which may be readily attached to any of the wagons now in use and which will serve, in addition to its function as an endgate, as a shoveling-board for shoveling out the contents of the wagon and a chute by means of which a large amount of the contents of the wagon when full may be discharged.

l/Vith this as well as other objects in view the invention consists in certain features of construction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the rear end of a wagonbody, illustrating my invention and showing the end-gate in closed position. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the end-gate swung in the position to act as a shoveling-board and at the same time prevent the contents of the wagon-body from rolling out of the end thereof, and Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the end-gate adjusted to serve as a chute.

Referring to the drawings, 1 denotes the wagon-body, which may be of any well-known or approved construction, and 2 denotes the end-gate, provided with side pieces 3, suitably braced by angle-irons a, and having at its lower end an eye 5, which engages hooks 6, which project in the same direction. These hooks are arranged in a recess 7, formed in the bottom of the wagon-body, so as not to project out beyond the edge or above the surface of the body and interfere with the discharge of the contents of the wagon or be in a position to be damaged or knocked off. When it is desired to remove the'end-gate, it is slipped to one side and the eye at the lower end thereof disengaged from the hooks.

8 denotes hooks arranged on each side of Serial No. 25,676. (No model.)

the body, or if removable side-boards are employed they may be secured to them.

9 denotes chains secured to eye-plates 10, which in turn are secured to the upper end of the gate. These chains are adapted to engage with the hooks aforesaid and hold the end-gate in closed position or in open position, as may be desired. -When they are employed for holding the end-gate in closed position, it is essential that considerable strain be imparted to the chains in order to prevent them from becoming accidentally disengaged from the hooks. To this end I provide a lever 11 and form it with a bent handle extension 12. The lever 11 is pivoted to the end-gate intermediate its ends and has projecting therefrom oppositely-directed hooks 12 to receive the links of the chains. A segmental rack 13 is pivoted above the lever and is adapted to engage a too 14, formed integral with the lever, and hold the lever after the chains have been drawn taut thereby in its adjusted position, thereby bracing the sides of the wagon-body at its rear end, as well as preventing the end-gate from becoming accidentally disengaged by reason of the jolting of the wagon.

The end-gate may be applied to any of the wagons now in general use without disturbing the construction of the wagon, it not being even necessary to remove the ordinary end-gate cleats, which are numbered 15 in the accompanying drawings.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction, operation, and advantages of my invention will be readily understood without requiring an extended explanation.

The device is exceedingly useful for the purpose for which it is designed and may be placed upon the market at a comparatively-- small cost.

Various changes in the form, proportion,

and the minor details of construction may be resorted to withoutdeparting from the principle or sacrificing any of theadvantages of this invention. v

Having thus fully described my invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with a wagon-body provided with hooks on its sides and with hooks set into recesses at the rear end of the floor of the wagon-body, of an end-gate provided with eyes at its rear end to engage the last named hooks, and with eye-plates at its upper end, chains connected to the eye-plates aforesaid and adapted to engage the hooks on the side pieces of the wagon-body, a le- V61 pivoted to the rear side of the end-gate and provided with oppositely-directed hooks [O which are adapted to engage the free end of the chains, and a segmental rack-bar pivoted to the end-gate and adapted to hold the lever in adjusted position,substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing wit I 5 nesses.

WESLEY CARPENTER.

Witnesses:

D. H. LAPPEN, ROBERT DAVEY. 

